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Kant Versus Descartes: The Paralogism of Substantiality

Darulfunun Ilahiyat, 2023
When Descartes doubted the existence of everything sensible, he expressed the indisputability of his own existence as “I think, therefore I am.” He then questioned what he is and deduced that he is a thinking substance, namely a soul or mind.
Fatih Özgökman
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The Common Origins of Philosophical and Political Power in Plato's Gorgias

Plato, 2021
Plato’s Gorgias concerns the tension between political and philosophical power. In it, Socrates and Gorgias discuss rhetoric’s power, which Gorgias claims is universal, containing all powers, enabling the rhetorician to rule over others politically ...
Lydia Winn
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Socrates’ kατάβασις and the Sophistic Shades: Education and Democracy

Plato, 2023
This article addresses the unusually elaborate dramatic context in Plato’s Protagoras and effect of sophistry on democratic Athens. Because Socrates evokes Odysseus’ κατάβασις in the Odyssey to describe the sophists in Callias’ house (314c-316b), I ...
Christine Rojcewicz
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1914 Revisited: Evidence vs. Sophistry [PDF]

Токови историје, 2023
The response by Danilo Šarenac to a critical review of his own and two of his colleagues’ reflections on the 1914 Sarajevo assassination is subjected to close analysis of the specific details emphasized in that response.
John Zametica
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CONCERNING THE PRE-SOCRATIC DOCTRINES IN RHETORIC

Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2023
Background. Mastering the rhetorical art as a philological discipline must be based on scientific understanding of the subject of speech influence. The latter is only possible if one masters not only the knowledge of the current state of the discipline ...
Lev G. Vasiliev, Nataliia V. Melnichuk
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Can virtue be taught? [PDF]

Filozofija i Društvo, 2009
The teachability of virtue is an issue on which were crossed swords during the struggle for supremacy between two basic principles of ancient Greek spirit - sophistry and ancient Greek ethics. Two great representatives of these opposite principles, Plato
Nikitović Aleksandar
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Ut sophistes pictor: An Introduction to the Sophistic Contribution to Aesthetics

Humanities, 2023
This essay provides an introduction to the question of the contribution of the ancient sophists to aesthetics in Western art. It commences by examining the persistent analogies to visual arts in negative and positive discussions of sophistry, both ...
Clare Lapraik Guest
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On Galen's medical rhetoric [PDF]

Hypothekai, 2023
In ancient Greece, medicine was closely linked to rhetoric as it needed the tools to persuade the audience and logically justify the methods of treatment.
Irina PROLYGINA
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What Performative Contradiction Reveals: Plato’s Theaetetus and Gorgias on Sophistry

Humanities, 2023
Socrates’ use of performative contradiction against sophistic theories is a recurrent motif in Plato’s dialogues. In the case of Plato’s Theaetetus and Gorgias, Socrates attempts to show that Protagoras’ homo mensura doctrine and Gorgias’ doctrine of the
Robert Metcalf
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Sophistry about symmetries? [PDF]

Synthese, 2020
AbstractA common adage runs that, given a theory manifesting symmetries, the syntax of that theory should be modified in order to construct a new theory, from which symmetry-variant structure of the original theory has been excised. Call this strategy for explicating the underlying ontology of symmetry-related models reduction.
Martens, Niels Carl Maria, Read, James
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